doogles

I decided to put my first coat of wax on the Abyss Blue TL today. Washed with Dawn, dried, then polished with Meguiar's Deep Crystal Polish using a Ryobi car polisher ($25 bucks at Home Depot, 4800 RPMs, figured what the hack...). Took the polish off using the terry pad, applied Meguiar's NXT by hand, removed by hand with MF towels. While taking the wax off of the hood, I noticed that there are faint streaks that run from the front of the hood to the back, perhaps the width of the orbital head (6") and they follow the general path of my waxing routine. The streaks appear as darker sections of paint (back and forth), as contrasted against lighter sections. They are not plainly visible, but enough for me to notice. My thought is that I may have either pressed down with more pressure on certain runs with the polish, or may have used more polish on the darker areas, which created the darker streaks (removing more paint? None showed up on the terry pads). Has anybody run into a similar problem? These are not swirl marks or spider webs, but something that has affected the color of the paint. Maybe just the nature of the paint job, but I doubt it. Any suggestions?

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can you apply NXT over a carnauba? It's a polymer and assuming it's anything like Zaino, carnauba and polymers = Might have to start over.

doogles

The NXT over the Polish shouldn't be a problem--the polish just deepens the shine by removing oxidation and light swirls, the NXT just seals the shine in. I don't think that there is any carnauba wax in the polish. Meguiar's recommends following it with a wax, I don't think that NXT would be a bad one to follow the polish but I have been wrong before!

copter

Ditto; You can apply NXT and then a carnuba topper if needed.

I did 2 coats of NXT then applied Hi-Tech Yellow Wax for richness and depth..

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This might help:::::::


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The procedure of applying a Carnauba wax over the top of another product, usually a synthetic, but not always is called topping, or layering.

Far be it from me to stop somebody from experimenting with topping NXT or anyone's base coat of wax.

Meguiar's Deep Crystal Step 3 Carnauba Wax is actually a Blended wax. You can read more about it here in Meguiar's *NEW* FAQ

6. Are polymer sealants better than traditional carnauba waxes?

Here is what I suggest if you think you want to try applying a topper to NXT Tech Wax.

First, Start with two well applied coats of Tech wax on a flat panel, such as your hood, or deck lid.

Then, to one half of the panel, apply your choice of a topper, follow the directions and apply and remove accordingly. Then, inspect both sides under both artificial light and bright sun light at different angles.

Make sure you're improving upon the results you have already achieved by testing a section before applying the topper to the entire car. If you apply to the entire car without first testing and inspection... how will you know if it looks better?

Mike



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doogles

Thanks for the link, Copter, I'm sure I can find an answer there!

caball88

you have to be real careful with those orbitable buffers. its not for a beginner, my bet is that the pad that was used with the buffer was too coarse and stripped some of the clear or paint off. what i would do is take the car to a body shop and have them look at it. tell them what you did and they may be able to fix it.

Jim123

I agree. The rule is use the least abrasive method possible. On a brand new car I don't see any reason to be using an orbitable buffer especially if you have not used one before. I'd stick with the manual/hand approach.